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Why use EtherChannels: What is an EtherChannel Essential procedures: Create an EtherChannel Change an EtherChannel Delete an EtherChannel Tips on using this window: Click the column headings to sort information. Click Submit to save your changes. Click Cancel to discard unsaved changes. Back to the top ### What Is an EtherChannel An EtherChannel (or port group) is a group of two or more Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet switch ports bundled into a single logical link, creating a higher bandwidth link between two switches. The switch supports up to six EtherChannels. For example, you can assign four 10/100 switch ports to an EtherChannel to provide full-duplex bandwidth of up to 800 Mbps. If one of the ports in the EtherChannel becomes unavailable, traffic is carried over to the remaining ports within the EtherChannel. All ports in an EtherChannel must have the same characteristics: All are either 10/100 ports or all 10/100/1000 ports. You cannot group a mix of 10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports in an EtherChannel. All are enabled. A disabled port in an EtherChannel is treated as a link failure, and its traffic is transferred to one of the remaining ports in the EtherChannel. All are applied with the Smartports Switch port role and belong to the same VLAN. For information about port roles and VLAN memberships, see Smartports. Back to the top ### Create an EtherChannel To create an EtherChannel: Click Create from the EtherChannels window. The switch supports up to six EtherChannels. Enter a group number for the EtherChannel. The number can be from 1 to 6. Choose a mode from the Mode list. The default is IEEE 802.3ad (LACP). The IEEE 802.3ad (LACP) mode allows the switch to create one end of the EtherChannel if the other switch requests it. The Static mode requires you to check that both ends of the EtherChannel have the same configuration and then to manually create the EtherChannel. Select one or more ports. Click Done. To discard any unsaved changes, click Cancel. Repeat Steps 1 to 5 until you have created all of your EtherChannels. Note: You can create up to six EtherChannels. Click Submit to save your changes. To discard unsaved changes, click Cancel. Back to the top ### Change an EtherChannel To change an EtherChannel: Check the check box of the EtherChannel that you want to change. Click Modify from the EtherChannels window. Choose a mode from the Mode list. The default is IEEE 802.3ad (LACP). The IEEE 802.3ad (LACP) mode allows the switch to create one end of the EtherChannel if the other switch requests it. The Static mode requires you to check that both ends of the EtherChannel have the same configuration and then to manually create the EtherChannel. Select one or more ports. Check the Status column to help you decide which ports to add to the group. Click Done. To discard any unsaved changes, click Cancel. Repeat Steps 1 to 5 until you have created all of your EtherChannels. Click Submit to save your changes. To discard unsaved changes, click Cancel. Back to the top ### Delete an EtherChannel To delete an EtherChannel: Select one or more EtherChannels. Click Delete. To discard any unsaved changes, click Cancel. Click Submit to save your changes. To discard unsaved changes, click Cancel. Back to the top